From Camp near Magadi

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Written by Louise Leakey | 30 May 2010

We arrived in camp yesterday evening. S 02.04.671 E036.13.223 . The checkpoints are probably in the hills to the east of this point.

Its hot here, they reckon tomorrow in the heat of the day it will be 52 degrees celcius. We will cook running round there for 10 hours!

This morning we took the car to Scrutineering where we drew our starting checkpoint from the envelope. Tanya pulled this out and we will see this evening where this is. We need to go out to the Checkpoint called Brookhose tomorrow morning and we leave at 620 in convoy. The officials have checked the car, given us our time sheet and installed their GPS tracker so they know where we are all the time.

We have made final preparations to the car today and she is set to go.

This evening we will meet at 5pm and collect our map and the list of GPS fixes for the checkpoints. We then come back to camp and plot these and work out our route, and load the GPS handhelds with our points so that we are set for the morning.

Its going to be tough work tomorrow but we are very much looking forward to it and hoping that you will follow us.